2) Find a PC running Windows XP or Windows 2000 to be your IVSMagic server, and determine its LAN IP address. Don't bother trying to use a Windows 98 machine, it won't work.

3) Collect the following information: IP Addresses and PORTs assigned to all of your ReplayTVs. IP Address of your WiRNS server if you are running WiRNS (if you aren't running WiRNS you should have your head examined). The mapped drive letter/path that points to the shows files you have stored on your DVArchive Server or WiRNS show server.

4) Install the program from #1 above onto PC #2 above. You will answer the installer questions using the information collected in #3 above. It is best if you try this process before midnight

NOTE: You must be logged in with full administrative rights for this to work!

5) Edit the file C:\Program Files\IVSMagic\IVSm.ini to add the PORTs of all of your ReplayTV's on the proxy_port line. Mine looks like this:

proxy_port=29000,29200,29500

5.3) While you are editing IVSm.ini, update the local_guide_path variable to support all of the drive letters used for show storage. Mine looks like this:

local_guide_path=D:\DVArchive, E:\DVArchive

5.6) If you really understand what it means to be testing BETA software, enable the advanced interface. This is done by adding the following line to your IVSM.ini file (I put it at the bottom of mine):

8 ) From any PC on your LAN (including the IVSMagic Server), open a browser Window and go to the IP Address and server port of your IVSMagic server (the bold entry in #6 above is what I use). If your IVSMagic server is running, you will see the main IVSMagic server screen - feel free to browse around. Take note of the checkbox to include your "local guide" in the Poopli update.

9) AFTER you have the IVSMagic server up and running, go to your Router and change the port forwarding entries for all of your ReplayTV's to point to the IVSMagic server IP (#2 above). You will delete the port forward entries that point to your Replay TV's. All ReplayTV related ports should only point to the IVSMagic server.

10) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR REPLAY TVS! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going.

11) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR WIRNS SERVER! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going. After everything was running smooth, I did stop using WiRNS to update the Poopli Show Database, as IVSMagic will do the same job with the added bonus of posting your DVArchive show library on Poopli!

12) NOTE: You do not have to wait for your active IVS transfers to complete to make the conversion to IVSMagic. You can activate IVSMagic in the middle of a transfer and you won't miss a beat (OK you might miss a few nano-beats). IVSMagic will actually discover your already started transfers (assuming you didn't go with "Protected Send Mode=ON"

Enjoy, and always remember to THINK B4U POST!

Last edited by nded on Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:11 pm; edited 6 times in total

The low down on installing IVSMagic quick and easy as of today.
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11) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR WIRNS SERVER! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going. After everything was running smooth, I did stop using WiRNS to update the Poopli Show Database, as IVSMagic will do the same job with the added bonus of posting your DVArchive show library on Poopli!
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It appears to me that the Poopli database update using IVSm is a manual process (at least while it is in beta). Is there a way to automate the Poopli DB update via IVSm?

I'm confident "automatic" updates to Poopli are on the sure to be done list, right next to the promised ability to point the local show database to multiple drive/directories._________________ This signature under construction. Please check back soon for updates.

Actually, automatic Poopli updates (and scheduled Replay guide refreshes) are already coded but just not activated. For the beta versions of IVSm I have decided to keep everything a manual process (for now). I'm sorry if this inconveniences anyone, but we are still in the testing phase here and I don't want to blow up anybody's computer manually or much less on a schedule.

Multiple Local Guide paths has *already* been a feature since the last major build (0.9.2.0). Check out the CHANGELOG for more info.

would you mind making a little list on #9 like you did for #6 to make sure its clear what #9 wants one to do? i am asking this for myself and others as well. though i think i know what it means it would be nice to have a setup like you did in #6.

i have not been able to play with ivsm since the first few days after it was released so i need to relearn the process and see what changes have been made _________________My shows - available at 768 kb/s up.

would you mind making a little list on #9 like you did for #6 to make sure its clear what #9 wants one to do? i am asking this for myself and others as well. though i think i know what it means it would be nice to have a setup like you did in #6.

i have not been able to play with ivsm since the first few days after it was released so i need to relearn the process and see what changes have been made

11) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR WIRNS SERVER! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going. After everything was running smooth, I did stop using WiRNS to update the Poopli Show Database, as IVSMagic will do the same job with the added bonus of posting your DVArchive show library on Poopli!

In a similar vein, the user should probably stop using the Poopli Updater application (service & GUI) once they have IVSmagic configured.

11) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR WIRNS SERVER! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going. After everything was running smooth, I did stop using WiRNS to update the Poopli Show Database, as IVSMagic will do the same job with the added bonus of posting your DVArchive show library on Poopli!

In a similar vein, the user should probably stop using the Poopli Updater application (service & GUI) once they have IVSmagic configured.

edit: Great, streamlined instructions, by the way.

This is true to a point at present. But right now IVSM does not do automatic Poopli updates. So if you stop using the Poopli Updater when you install IVSM, you will need to manually update your show dB. I know Bob is planning on releasing an auto-update feature soon, but until that time, one may want to continue to use the Poopli updater and just not update through IVSM. After the Poopli auto-update feature is added, then one certainly wants to do as you suggest.

In the same vein and going off what Nded said, you may want to change a setting on your WiRNS server. If you intend to use IVSM to update Poopli then you will want to disable that functionality in WiRNS.

11) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON YOUR WIRNS SERVER! No changes are required to get IVSMagic going. After everything was running smooth, I did stop using WiRNS to update the Poopli Show Database, as IVSMagic will do the same job with the added bonus of posting your DVArchive show library on Poopli!

In a similar vein, the user should probably stop using the Poopli Updater application (service & GUI) once they have IVSmagic configured.

edit: Great, streamlined instructions, by the way.

This is true to a point at present. But right now IVSM does not do automatic Poopli updates. So if you stop using the Poopli Updater when you install IVSM, you will need to manually update your show dB. I know Bob is planning on releasing an auto-update feature soon, but until that time, one may want to continue to use the Poopli updater and just not update through IVSM. After the Poopli auto-update feature is added, then one certainly wants to do as you suggest.

In the same vein and going off what Nded said, you may want to change a setting on your WiRNS server. If you intend to use IVSM to update Poopli then you will want to disable that functionality in WiRNS.

Yes, which is exactly what I was trying to point out relative to the very fine documentation Nded has provided -- although I would admit that "could" would have been preferred in my statement over "should." If he is commenting in his procedure that one may want to disable WiRNS updates of Poopli, in deference to IVSmagic, then the same message would apply to those using the Poopli Updater*, and a similar warning might be helpful. (*Even though it is apparently a mortal sin to NOT be using WiRNS nowadays. )

(*Even though it is apparently a mortal sin to NOT be using WiRNS nowadays. )

I don't know if I' use the term mortal sin, but it's a sin for sure if you aren't using it!

As Nded says in his Poopli sig (don't know why he doesn't use it here), "Anyone who has Networked Replays and isn't running WiRNS ought to have their head examined." Something like that. Frankly, that statement is why I checked out and started using WiRNS!

Bob, please move the info on what's going on BACK into the main page. The upper right corner "processing please wait" etc. messages are too small. Additionally, they don't work correctly in Safari. Once the first "Please Wait" message is displayed, no other messages show up.

Hi all... I was wondering if there is a need to run the IVS and WIRNs on differente servers.... I initially tried to install WIRNS on my DAV server. The first attemtp did not work. I was able to get WIRNS running just now but I logged out of DVA before manually starting WIRNS....

Hi all... I was wondering if there is a need to run the IVS and WIRNs on differente servers.... I initially tried to install WIRNS on my DAV server. The first attemtp did not work. I was able to get WIRNS running just now but I logged out of DVA before manually starting WIRNS....

Anyone have some insight to this?? Thanks

all three CAN run on the same computer, but if you want to take advantage of the emulated replay features of WiRNS and DVA, they need to be on different IPs since the emulated replay has to use port 80. this can also cause problems since you are using Windows 2000 Server if you have IIS enabled and running because IIS also uses port 80 (although you can change the listen port for IIS). you will have to add alternate IPs to you network adapter for each app that has to use port 80. DVA and WiRNS will happily use alternate IPs. however, there have been some issues with IIS. even tho you can tell it to listen only on a specific IP, it usually takes over all IPs and listens on port 80 on the alternate IPs, too. there is a MS knowledgebase article regarding this; but i have never been able to get IIS to co-exist with any other app that has to use port 80 no matter what the IP is.

IVSm will co-exist with either WiRNS or DVA on the same IP since the default port for IVSm is 8080. if you already have something using port 8080, you can easily specify that IVSm listen on a different port._________________Go on... Smell my Poop. You know you want to.

Thanks for the advice.. fortunatly I am not running IIS on this particular server. I use it among other things as my fax server and my Cybergenie PBX host..

So, in short I can run all three but it is suggested to run multiple IP address for the DVA and WIRNS... should be doable.. have not started playing with IVSMagic... but plan on it since I will be snow bound this weekend....

Just wanted to mention -- this guide is great! I used it yesterday to set up IVSMagic easily. The only thing missing was instructions on how to add another IP address to my network adapter (I'm running WiRNS and IVSMagic on the same machine), but I found that in another thread.

Please delete this post, and the 2 prior posts regarding "incomplete" documentation. These so called great minds are asking for information that has nothing to do with installation (what part of "Installation Guide" didnt' they understand?), and I don't use IVSmagic to send shows back to my local Replays (don't have any desire to do such, so I won't be writing the manual). If you decide to give a warning to Soliars for his rude finger actions, that's fine with me too._________________ This signature under construction. Please check back soon for updates.

Please delete this post, and the 2 prior posts regarding "incomplete" documentation. These so called great minds are asking for information that has nothing to do with installation (what part of "Installation Guide" didnt' they understand?), and I don't use IVSmagic to send shows back to my local Replays (don't have any desire to do such, so I won't be writing the manual). If you decide to give a warning to Soliars for his rude finger actions, that's fine with me too.

The 3 posts (in different forums) from Soliars are obviously spam (you can see that his profile consists of only a web page). And, the posts are to very old threads where the last post was over a year old (except for this one).

The post from Scallica seems legit, however His profile looks perfectly normal, all his previous posts look normal, and he is clearly posting about ReplayTV and IVSmagic. Maybe he thought that "Experts" in the title of this thread meant it should include such information on sending shows back to the Replay. Since IVSmagic and WiRNS are the only two apps that can do this, it certainly seems like a genuine request. If you don't think it belongs as part of the "Fast Start" guide, then you can certainly reply as such (after all, it IS your info). But, that doesn't mean the post should be deleted since it seems like a very reasonable, genuine request (if you look at his other posts, they are all about getting IVSmagic to send back to the Replay, so I can see how it needs special attention)...

Henry_________________Here's my Poop (I know that's the old Poopli, but I like it that way!)